Dopamine

Meet Dopamine…the sugar rush has a dark side, where every hit requires the next to be ever stronger just to feel anything at all. Sucking the hysterical ecstasy from every experience because she knows it will soon be gone, and the crash could be deadly this time.

In bipolar mania, studies show (we know what comes next, Ratties;) increased dopamine transporter levels. (PubMed Article Here)

And it feels…beautiful. Until it doesn’t.